Opposite Sex Civil Partnership Question

[anonymous-user]

TooMany2cvs said:

Durzel said:

Still don't really understand why it's such a big deal to get married

Because people are looking for things to be offended about.

So Gay people can be married or in a civil partnership but heterosexual people cannot where's the gobby Tatchell he should be shouting from the rooftops about the 'inequality' of it all now or is gay equality like race & religious equality in only seeming to work one way ?

[TooMany2cvs]

speedyguy said:

So Gay people can be married or in a civil partnership but heterosexual people cannot where's the gobby Tatchell he should be shouting from the rooftops about the 'inequality' of it all now or is gay equality like race & religious equality in only seeming to work one way ?

Actually, Peter Tatchell has been very staunch in his support for this couple and the concept in general - and is quoted in that article...

I think he's right, but wrong. There should be no inequality. BUT... that doesn't require civil partnerships. They were always just a half-arsed fudge to try to avoid actually having to allow gay people to marry, and they should never have existed in the first place. There should be NO difference at all between gay and straight marriage. Marry... or don't. Whether you're gay or straight. Wherever you want - including churches or temples or synagogues or mosques or hot air balloons or stately homes or dingy chain hotels on the edge of Bracknell.

[Swervin_Mervin]

They'll be phased out before the next term as well I'd have thought, as alluded to in the article.

[Butter Face]

Saw this and remembered this thread.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man...

I don't really understand the difference myself but thought it might be of interest!

[spookly]

Having been married before and now divorced I can see why people would choose not to marry.

If you are lucky enough to have been married and not divorced then congratulations and best of luck for the future.

When signing a marriage contract you are effectively signing something where you have no idea of the potential liabilities. If your relationship breaks down then you are at the whim of the court and their current interpretations of what should happen if you divorce. And all of the lies, false accusations, drama and bullst that often goes along with a modern divorce.

My wife developed a..... erm.... how to put it politely.... a mental health condition... after quite a few years of happy marriage and two kids. Couldn't have predicted it would have happened before we were married. No way the marriage could have continued given the circumstances.

Divorce rate goes down
Funny how the article paints a picture of falling divorce rates.... well of course they will. After a couple of decades of lower marriage rates there are fewer married people to get divorced Looking at their graph it looks to me that the difference between the number of new marriages vs divorces each year has narrowed from about 4:1 in 1973, to about 3:1 by the end of the 70's, to worse than 2:1 from mid 90's forwards. With only a slight improvement to just over 2:1 in the most recent years.
Long term, no matter how loved up you are before and on your wedding day, stats show it looks like a 50/50.

[ModernAndy]

I saw this and remembered this thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39039146

sounds like it's just a matter of time till either civil partnership is scrapped or is open to everybody.

[ClockworkCupcake]

ModernAndy said:

I saw this and remembered this thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39039146

sounds like it's just a matter of time till either civil partnership is scrapped or is open to everybody.

It would totally make sense. There is absolutely no need to discriminate on gender or sexuality on either marriage or civil partnership.

Realistically, we'll probably end up keeping both as there will always be some people who want a legal union but without the baggage that the word "marriage" brings.